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My colleagues Alistair MacDonald and David Crawford have unearthed fascinating detail on the Yemen bomb plot. In a story today, they reveal German concern over how British officials dealt with the tip-off from the Saudis over the device, which passed through Germany on its way to Britain. German officials accuse the British of not acting quickly enough and say that they were then kept in the dark by their counterparts in the U.K.

“Ms. May has come under fire from German security officials, who say they weren’t kept in the investigation loop.

Asked for response to the German allegations, representatives from the U.K. Home Office and Scotland Yard said they don’t comment on operational security matters.

According to people familiar with the German reconstruction of events, the package was moved onto the plane at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn Airport, but by the time German authorities received a tip that it might be dangerous, the plane had already left for the U.K. German officials then tipped off the U.K. about the package.”